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1. IN AN INCREMENTAL DIGITAL COMPUTER DESIGNED TO PERFORM ITERATIVE CYCLIC CALCULATIONS AND TO PROVIDE REAL-TIME SOLUTIONS BASED ON INCREMENTAL CHANGES IN INPUT VARIABLES THE IMPROVEMENT COMPRISING: (A) A PLURALITY OF INTERCONNECTED SERIAL COMPUTER CHANNELS FOR IMPLEMENTING A GENERAL INCREMENTAL ALGORITHM; (B) PROGRAMMING MEANS CONTROLLING SAID COMPUTER CHANNEL SERIAL OPERATIONS IN ACCORDANCE WITH PREDETERMINED MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS SUCH AS ADDITION AND MULTIPLICATION; (C) VARIABLE MAGNITUDE INCREMENT SIGNAL SOURCE, RESPONSIVE TO SIGNALS REPRESENTATIVE OF THE RESIDUE IN THE CYCLIC SOLUTIONS OF SAID COMPUTER CHANNELS, TO PROVIDE VARIABLE INCREMENT SIGNALS IN SUCH A MANNER THAT THE SLEWING RATE OF THE COMPUTER IS VARIED; (D) STORAGE MEANS IN SAID VARIABLE INCREMENT SIGNAL SOURCE FOR A SINGLE BIT SIGNAL TO PROVIDE SELECTED CONSTANT INCREMENT SIGNALS FOR EACH COMPUTATION CYCLE; AND 